Member of Technical Staff - Bare Metal & Fleet Provisioning
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What we know
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Posted 14d ago
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We have tracked this listing since 18 Sep 2026 (14 days). The employer's own board has carried it every time we have read it, most recently just now.
Is it remote?
Remote
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Who may apply?
San Francisco
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Pay
$150k–300k/yr
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The listing
Own Your Intelligence
Prime Intellect is building the open superintelligence stack: the infrastructure frontier AI labs build internally, made available to every ambitious AI team.
Our platform, Lab, unifies compute, environments, evaluations, secure sandboxes, high-performance training, and deployment into one full-stack system for post-training at frontier scale - from SFT and RL to tool use, agent workflows, and continuously improving production models. We are building open frontier AI: open-source models trained end to end for long-horizon tasks like autonomous research, and the full-stack platform our own research team uses to build them. The next generation of AI companies, enterprises, and research teams do not just need more GPUs. They need the ability to turn their own workflows, tools, data, and feedback loops into superintelligence they own.
Prime Intellect has raised $150M in total funding from Founders Fund, Radical Ventures, NVIDIA, and exceptional AI, infrastructure, and enterprise operators — including Andrej Karpathy, Dwarkesh Patel, and leaders and founders from Ramp, Perplexity, Harvey, Mercor, Zapier, Datadog, Cognition, OpenAI, Thinking Machines, Together AI, SemiAnalysis, LangChain, Browserbase, Cloudflare, Sierra, Databricks, Airbnb, OpenRouter, Standard Intelligence, Fleet, Core Auto, and more. We are looking for people who want to build at the intersection of frontier research, real infrastructure, and go-to-market for a category that does not fully exist yet.
Role Impact
You'll build the systems that turn bare-metal GPU servers into reliable, production-ready compute. Own the machine lifecycle from discovery and provisioning through validation, upgrades, repair, and secure reuse, reducing manual work as our fleet grows.
Core Technical Responsibilities
Build automated discovery, network boot, OS imaging, and configuration workflows for GPU servers
Automate BIOS, BMC, NIC, GPU driver, and firmware configuration with staged rollouts and safe recovery paths
Develop hardware inventory and lifecycle services that track machine identity, configuration, health, and readiness
Create acceptance tests and burn-in workflows for GPUs, memory, storage, and interconnects before capacity enters production
Integrate provisioning and health checks with SLURM, Kubernetes, and compute allocation systems
Build observability, quarantine, repair, and re-provisioning workflows; partner with datacenter teams to resolve hardware failures
Implement secure credential handling, tenant isolation, and data sanitization across the server lifecycle
Technical Requirements
Required Experience
3+ years of experience operating Linux servers or building bare-metal infrastructure automation in production
Hands-on experience with PXE/iPXE, DHCP, image provisioning, and out-of-band management such as Redfish or IPMI
Strong software engineering and debugging skills in Python, Go, or a comparable language, plus Bash
Experience designing reliable automation that handles partial failures, retries, and configuration drift
Ability to own operational incidents and collaborate across hardware, networking, and platform teams
Infrastructure Skills
Linux boot, systemd, kernel and driver troubleshooting, and OS image management
Infrastructure automation with tools such as Ansible and Terraform
GPU server diagnostics, PCIe topology, BMC telemetry, and firmware compatibility
Network fundamentals including addressing, VLANs, DNS, and management networks
Metrics, logs, alerting, and auditable configuration management
Nice to Have
Experience with large NVIDIA GPU fleets, DGX/HGX platforms, or heterogeneous server vendors
Experience with MAAS, Ironic, Tinkerbell, or similar provisioning systems
Kubernetes or SLURM node lifecycle integrations
Hardware qualification, automated burn-in, and fleet health scoring
Contributions to open-source infrastructure tooling
Growth Opportunity
You'll work directly with customers pushing the boundaries of AI, from startups training foundation models to enterprises deploying massive inference infrastructure. You'll collaborate with our world-class engineering team while having direct impact on systems powering the next generation of AI breakthroughs.
We value expertise and customer obsession - if you're passionate about building reliable, high-performance GPU infrastructure and have a track record of successful large-scale deployments, we want to talk to you.
Apply now and join us in our mission to democratize access to planetary scale computing.
Compensation
Cash compensation range of $150,000–$300,000 plus equity incentives.